About Us

Environmental Risk Transfer (ERT) provides complex environmental risk-transfer solutions to corporations that wish to cost-effectively eliminate all environmental liability. In response to increasing shareholder and stakeholder demands as well as a state and federal regulatory focus on site closure in connection with financial and environmental liability, the Waterfield Group and Environmental Operations, Inc. (EOI) created ERT. ERT’s relationships with the largest and most sophisticated financial institutions, legal experts and deep team of industry leading environmental engineers – means we combine our financial, operational, technical and risk management expertise to offer highly competitive long-term solutions that bring closure to environmental sites. By offering integrated environmental experience with innovative financial products, we provide our clients with best in class solutions that define, mitigate and contain environmental and financial liability. We are pleased to provide details on our background and experience below.

The Waterfield Group (“Waterfield”) is a diversified financial service holding company that traces its origins to 1928. After selling the largest private mortgage company in the US and largest Indiana-based bank in 2006 and 2007 respectively, the Waterfield Group has focused on investing opportunistically in many sectors. Providing investment capital and affiliation with the strongest companies and service providers enables Waterfield to solve complex problems with its partners and clients. Risk management is the cornerstone to our heritage.

Established in 1986, Environmental Operations, Inc. (EOI) is an environmental engineering firm with a critical value proposition- guide environmental projects, large and small, from inception to successful completion using an innovative and investment-minded approach. EOI understands the financial pressure associated with a slow-moving project and uses its consulting expertise and business savvy to help clients navigate engineering, regulatory and political obstacles that challenge each project. ERT identifies and resolves environmental issues and makes projects happen with customer-oriented consulting, integrated technical expertise and risk assumption tools, all designed to minimize or eliminate the client’s environmental liabilities. ERT offers regulatory negotiation, risk assumption and integrated environmental services to Fortune 500 corporations, real estate developers, municipalities, county governments, general contractors, utilities, industries, manufacturers, bankers, and attorneys. ERT may also provide environmental consulting and contracting services, as well as regulatory compliance, demolition, waste management, and industrial hygiene engineering. This complete portfolio of turnkey services allows ERT to facilitate all site work more efficiently.

Overview

Our combination of the primary funding trust (escrow), insurance products issued by top rated insurers, and our contractual indemnity is the most robust risk transfer program in the market place and fully addresses the full spectrum of environmental risk. to the Seller.

We BROADLY AND IN PERPETUITY indemnify the Seller for the assumed environmental risk. This indemnity is collateralized by the assets purchased, a primary funding escrow account containing 90% of the sale price, fixed price contracts with reputable contractors, and, in the event the indemnity fails, an “excess of indemnity” insurance policy which will “step in” for the indemnity provided by ERT in unlikely event of a default.

In our typical program , we indemnify for all liabilities and claims arising out of, relating to or resulting from (i) the physical condition of the Property, including any environmental conditions (whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected) above or below grade on or emanating from your property, which may have existed in the past, may now exist, or may exist in the future and which will affect the Property, (ii) injuries to off-site properties, third parties, or natural resources caused by environmental conditions on or emanating from your property; (iii) any release of or exposure to any hazardous materials occurring after our closing; (iv) any actual or alleged non-compliance with any environmental laws or permits after our closing; and (v) any and all investigative and remedial work at your property or associated with conditions emanating from your property, as required by applicable environmental law or order of any governmental body or any applicable future Laws or orders of any governmental body, and (vi) Buyer's generation, transport, and disposal of all materials associated with Buyer's obligations under our agreement with you.

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